Vangelis Vergetis, PhD

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Vangelis is a co-founder and Executive Director at Intelligencia. He has spent the last 15 years in healthcare, particularly on the interface between life sciences, technology, and data science. Prior to founding Intelligencia, Vangelis spent about a dozen years as a consultant at McKinsey and at Hakluyt, working with clients across different areas within healthcare. He is a board member and member of the executive committee at the Alliance for AI in Healthcare (AAIH), and a member of the advisory board for Cornell’s department of Computer & Information Science (CIS).

Vangelis holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UPenn and a BS in Computer Science from Cornell.

Dimitrios Skaltsas

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Dimitrios is a co-founder and Executive Director at Intelligencia. He has spent the past 10 years in healthcare and life sciences leadership roles. Before Intelligencia, Dimitris led McKinsey’s New Ventures for big data and AI in the Pharmaceutical R&D sector. Prior to that, he was a management consultant supporting Healthcare and Life Sciences clients in North America and Europe. He serves as an Executive in Residence for Digital and AI at INSEAD, and is an investor and advisor to early stage ventures.

Dimitrios has an MBA from INSEAD and a law degree from UCL and University of Athens.

Violetta Kalathaki

Chief Product Officer

Violetta is the Chief Product Officer at Intelligencia. Violetta brings several years of experience from Google where amongst other things she built products like Adsense Native ads and created a high touch Marketing acquisition team for Adwords. In addition to Google, Violetta brings valuable experience from McKinsey as well as the startup ecosystem.

Violetta holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Management from the LSE and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA.

Rezzan Köse, PhD

Chief Operating Officer

Rezzan is the Chief Operating Officer at Intelligencia. She has 10+ years of experience in corporate strategy, establishing and driving organizational processes, and implementing operational excellence. Before joining Intelligencia, Rezzan was a strategist at Citadel where she led the development of an AI-driven asset serving all enterprise functions. Prior to that, she was a management consultant at McKinsey serving major pharmaceuticals and financial services clients. Before McKinsey, Rezzan worked as a research analyst at Goldman Sachs. Following her PhD, Rezzan was an Assistant Director at Yale University's multi-disciplinary research center, CRISP, overseeing the center's overall affairs.

Rezzan holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Yale and a BS in Physics from Koç University.

Rena Rosenberg, PhD

Chief Customer Officer

Rena is the Chief Customer Officer at Intelligencia. She has spent ~20 years in healthcare, working across a wide range of ecosystems, including academia, Fortune 500 companies, and early stage startups. Rena was a partner in McKinsey's Pharmaceuticals Practice, is an active investor in and advisor to early stage companies, and is Adjunct Faculty teaching health economics at Columbia University. Rena loves marrying art and science to unlock value and believes passionately in the power of data and AI to be transformative for health and healthcare.

Rena holds a PhD in Economics from UChicago and a BA in Economics from Barnard College.

Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD

Scientific Advisor, Data Science & Bioinformatics

Dr. Tsirigos is a Professor of Pathology at the NYU School of Medicine where he also serves as the Vice Chair of the Institute for Computational Medicine and as Director of the Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Courant Institute of New York University in January 2006, and his B.S. from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1998.

Dr. Tsirigos has more than 18 years of experience in genomics and machine learning at NYU and IBM Research. He leads a team of 20+ computational biologists and data scientists and his research focus is primarily in cancer epigenetics, chromatin organization and AI-based diagnostics for cancer, cardiovascular and other diseases.

Dr. Tsirigos has co-authored 100+ studies in peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact studies in cancer epigenetics, chromatin organization, high-throughput single-cell transcriptomic analyses and precision diagnostics using deep learning.

Andreas Dimakakos, PhD

Director of Clinical Data

Andreas is the Director of Clinical Data at Intelligencia, currently responsible for managing the company’s entire internal clinical database. He has spent the majority of his career as an academic researcher with multiple publications in the fields of Oncology and Immuno-Oncology. His research is primarily focused on the ways colorectal cancer evades immune surveillance, and identifying novel molecules involved in prostate cancer metastasis.

Andreas holds a BS in Biology, MS and PhD in Molecular Biology from University of Athens, and is currently pursuing his MBA at the ALBA Graduate Business School.

Maria Georganaki, PhD

Director of Product

Maria is the Director of Product at Intelligencia. Maria is a molecular cancer biologist with a background in Immuno-Oncology. During her PhD and Post-Doc studies, Maria has participated as an early-stage researcher in the EU-funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network TIMCC and has co-authored 8 academic publications in leading journals.

Maria holds a PhD in Medical Science and an MS in Molecular Medicine from Uppsala University, and BD in Biology from University of Athens.

Heracles Kasimis

Director of Engineering

Heracles is the Director of Engineering at Intelligencia, overseeing the development and maintenance of company's software platform and architecture. Prior to Intelligencia, he worked as a Software Engineer for 12+ years in Information Technology sector, designing, developing and maintaining numerous web applications and services.

Heracles has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Southampton.

Gerry Liaropoulos

Director of Data Science

Gerry leads the development of Intelligencia's Machine Learning algorithms. Prior to joining Intelligencia, he spent several years as a quant trader for various asset classes and has built quantitative trading models in commodities, ETFs and futures. He serves as a Machine Learning instructor at Propulsion Academy in Zurich.

Gerry holds an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford, a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA and has completed Advanced Studies in Computer Science at ETH Zürich.

Phoebe Prosalika

Director of People Operations

Phoebe is the Director of People Operations at Intelligencia. Previously, she was leading the department of People Operations at Beat and was actively involved in scaling the company internationally, with a focus on culture and employee engagement.

Phoebe graduated from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at the Harokopio University and obtained her MBA at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Alex Tzoukas

Head of Investments

Alex is Head of Investments at Intelligencia. He worked as a life sciences investment banker for 8 years, based in New York. Previously worked at a private equity fund and a strategy group of a Greek bank.

Alex graduated from Athens University of Economics & Business and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nikos Afratis, PhD

Senior Scientific Associate

Nikos is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. He has spent the last 10 years in life science research focusing in the fields of Oncology, Fibrosis and Extracellular Matrix. He is author/co-author in 20+ publications in peer-review journals and editor of the book 'Methods in Molecular Biology-Collagen' by Springer. Prior to joining, he was Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science. He has received several fellowships and awards from international organizations (EMBO, FEBS, EU) for his research and he holds an international patent. He is a member of Federation of European Biochemical Society (FEBS), Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (HSBMB) and Review Editor in international peer-review scientific journals.

Nikos holds a PhD in Biochemistry, MSc in Applied Biochemistry and BSc in Chemistry from the University of Patras.

Marina Anastasiou

Senior Scientific Associate

Marina is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to that, she was working as a freelance vascular immunology consultant. She has studied endothelial innate sensing in the context of inflammation, cardiovascular disease and peripheral vascular injury.

She holds a PhD in cardiovascular immunology with double affiliation with the University of Crete Medical School and Tufts University School of Graduate Biomedical Studies.  She holds a MSc in Molecular Basis of Human Disease from the University of Crete Medical School and a BS in Biology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Konstantinos Annousakis

Data Scientist

Konstantinos is a Data Scientist at Intelligencia. During his studies, he focused on Image Processing and Machine Learning, specifically the discrimination of Photographs from Computer Graphics Images.

He has a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Patras.

Elisavet Bachtsi

Scientific Associate

Elisavet is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher at Amsterdam UMC-Locatie AMC and Vumc Cancer Center Amsterdam focusing on immunotherapy for hematological malignancies. 

She holds a MSc in Biomedical Sciences, Track Oncology from the University of Amsterdam and a BSc in Biology with a specialization in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biotechnology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Bara Badwan, PhD

Data Scientist

Bara is a Data Scientist at with Intelligencia. He is currently focused on adapting AI tools to better predict therapeutic effectiveness. Bara obtained his PhD from Yale University where he researched the early visual system in Damon Clark’s computational neuroscience group.

Previously, he had studied chemistry and chemical engineering at MIT while working for Ed Boyden’s Synthetic Neurobiology lab. Bara is an author of a number of publications in a variety of scientific fields.

George Bardi

Software Engineer

George is a Front-end Engineer at Intelligencia. Previously, he worked at Star Channel as Software Engineer for 4 years and prior to that he worked on various software development projects.

George holds a BS in Computer Science from University of Patras.

Alberto Benroubi

Data Scientist/Engineer

Alberto is a Data Scientist/Engineer at Intelligencia. He has worked in Data and Machine Learning fields in the past in Maritime and Telecommunications sectors.

Alberto holds an MS in Machine Learning from Imperial College London and a BS in Informatics from University of Piraeus.

Andreas Bougiouklis

Data Engineer

Andreas is a Data Engineer at Intelligencia. Previously, he worked as a data and machine learning engineer in a small start up where he was responsible for the entire data pipeline. He has also worked as an autonomous vehicle researcher during his undergraduate years.

Andreas holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA.

Ioanna Boumpoureka

Scientific Associate

Ioanna is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. She has previously worked on uncovering neuroprotective mechanisms in various models of Parkinson's disease and after graduation she worked as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist in the Athens Medical Center.

She holds an MS in Fundamental Neuroscience from the University of Maastricht and a BS in Biology from the University of Athens.

Laura Bilazarian

Business Development Manager

Laura is a Business Development Manager at Intelligencia. She has spent the last ten years as a big data and AI-driven technology and biotech founder, advisor and investor. Prior to that, she was a technology and healthcare investment banker and US national team rugby athlete.

She has a BS in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

George Cheliotis

Senior DevOps Engineer

George is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, he worked as a DevOps Chapter Lead in Vodafone, with a focus on establishing a portfolio of DevOps processes, practices, and tools to empower and support delivery teams in continuous integration, continuous deployment, and rapid delivery across value streams. 

George holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Patras.

Christina Diamanti

Scientific Associate

Christina is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, she worked as a biologist at Tzartos private laboratory for diagnosis and research in Neuroimmunology and as a medical representative for primary care at Chiesi Hellas. She participated in research programs regarding toxicology, neuroimmunology, thyroid cancer, neuromarketing, and behavioral analysis.

She holds an MSc in Neoplasmatic diseases from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an MSc in Economics and Management of Health from the University of Piraeus, and a BSc in Biology from the University of Patras. She studies Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy at Athens Synthesis Center.

Eva Digalaki

Scientific Associate

Eva is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, she spent time in various locations across Europe for scientific education and training.

She holds a BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Democritus University of Thrace and a MSc in Fundamental Neuroscience from Maastricht University.

Katerina Dimitropoulou

Scientific Associate

Katerina is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to that, her research focused on the nervous system, in particular on neuroprotection.

Katerina obtained her MS in Molecular Biomedicine from the Medical School of Athens and Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Alexander Fleming, and also holds a BS in Biology from the University of Patras.

Marianna Esposito, PhD

Scientific Liaison Manager

Marianna is a Scientific Liaison Manager at Intelligencia. Professionally trained as a Scientist, she did her post-doc in Immunology at King’s College London & NHS Foundation Trust. Thereafter she moved to the CRO industry, managing R&D and Clinical Operations at Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials, UK. Prior to Intelligencia, she spent 5 years in Kenya as Business Development Manager for East and Southern Africa for Sight Diagnostics, a fast-growing healthcare start-up headquartered in Israel.

Marianna holds a PhD in Cellular & Molecular Biology from the Open University of London and MS & BS degrees in Biological sciences.

Marina Gkini

Senior Product Designer

Marina is a Senior Product Designer at Intelligencia bringing visions to life by creating mockups and interaction flows for Intelligencia users working closely with product managers and engineers. Marina brings in over 10 years of experience where she approaches design holistically unifying it across it’s varying levels - workflow, experience, interaction, visual to provide a seamless experience.

Marina has a Diploma in Web & Graphic Design from Intergraphics from University of Intergraphics.

Nikolina Giotopoulou, PhD

Senior Scientific Associate

Nikolina is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, she worked as a PhD-candidate in Karolinska Institutet focused on Oncology and as an Intern in Pfizer, focused on Cancer Genetics.

She holds a PhD in Medical Science from Karolinska Institutet, a MSc in Biomedicine from Karolinska Institutet and a BSc/Integrated MSc in Applied Biology and Biotechnology from University of Ioannina.

Ioannis Gkinis

Data Engineer

Ioannis is a Data Engineer at Intelligencia. He has spent the past 3 years working as a machine learning engineer, with a focus on various NLP, speaker recognition and computer vision projects.

He holds a Diploma of Spatial Planning and Development from faculty of engineering A.U.T.H and an Msc in Geoinformatics from the National Technical University of Athens.

Francesco Grillo

Scientific Associate

Francesco is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, he worked at IQVIA as a pharmacovigilance officer, and at Nature Research in editorial production. He is a mentoring member of the King’s College London Neuroscience Society.

He holds an MRes in Translational Neuroscience from University College London, and a BSc in Biomedical Science from King’s College London.

Orsalia Hazapis, PhD

Bioinformatics

Orsalia is a Bioinformatician at Intelligencia and collaborates with the Laboratory of Histology-Embryology and Molecular Carcinogenesis Group at the Medical School of the University of Athens. Before joining Intelligencia, she worked as a bioinformatician in Max Delbrück Center in Berlin. Previously, she was a bioinformatician at HybriStat and BCSRC Alexander Fleming Institute. She has also worked as an electronic engineer at the University of Frankfurt in a collaboration with CERN LHC.

Orsalia is a PhD candidate in Bioinformatics and RNA biology at Max Delbrück Center, holds an MS in Microelectronics and a BS in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical Institute of Piraeus.

Nafsika Karamasioti

Scientific Associate

Nafsika is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Her research experience so far, through her work in FORTH (Crete), CRG (Barcelona), BRFAA and BSRC Alexander Fleming (Athens), focuses on immunology and oncology.

Nafsika holds an MS in Molecular Biomedicine from University of Athens and a BS in Biology from University of Crete.

Maria Kassi

Senior Customer Success Associate

Maria is a Senior Customer Success Associate at Intelligencia. She is a clinical pharmacist, specialized in oncology and hematology having worked in Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust being responsible for conventional treatment and clinical trials in cancer. She has also worked on statistical analysis of hospital data to identify and mitigate risks in collaboration with the University of Glasgow.

Maria holds an MS in Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Glasgow, Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Diploma from the Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB) and a Diploma in Pharmacy from University of Athens.

Marilena Katsa

Scientific Manager

Marilena is a Scientific Manager at Intelligencia. Before joining Intelligencia, she worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry as a Quality Assurance Officer. Prior to that, she conducted her MSc in Molecular Biomedicine including Mechanisms of Disease, Molecular & Cellular Therapies & Bio-innovation, where she was focused on lung cancer immunology. As part of her research, she had also worked on Genetics and Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at RadbouUMC, Netherlands.

Marilena holds a BS on Biochemistry and Biotechnology from University of Thessaly, Greece.

Maria Kokkali, PhD

Senior Scientific Associate

Maria is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. She is a neurobiologist with over 6 years’ work experience in neurodegenerative diseases and regenerative medicine and a summer research internship at the division of in-vitro fertilisation of the University Hospital of Ioannina. Prior to joining Intelligencia, Maria completed her PhD studies in Neuropharmacology at the University of Crete. Her Doctoral thesis was particularly focused on the physiological role and pharmacological interventions at the neurotrophin receptors in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) through the regulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis.

She holds an MSc in Neuroscience (emphasizing on Neural Stem Cells and Nervous System Repair) from King’s College London and a BSc/Integrated Master’s in Biological Applications and Technology from the UoA.

Vasiliki Kollia

Scientific Associate

Vassia is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. The past few years she has worked as a Senior Medical Translator/Reviewer/Editor, undertaking the full diligence of clinical trial-related documents. Her research interests and achievements have focused on the neuroscience field, as she has successfully participated in research projects/publications regarding neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Vassia holds an MSc in Molecular Medicine from the Medical School of the University of Athens and a BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from the University of Thessaly.

Nikolas Korasidis

Data Scientist

Nikolas is a Data Scientist at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, Nikolas was a master student at the Bioprocess Laboratory, in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zürich. As part of ETH's CATE team, he won the Modelling award in the 2017 iGEM competition of Synthetic Biology. Before embarking on the world of bioinformatics, he worked as Software Engineer at OpenBazaar, a cryptocurrency project, and has also served as TA in multiple programming courses at NTUA.

Nikolas holds an MS in Computational Biology from ETH Zürich and a Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA.

Ioanna Kouremenou

Senior Scientific Associate

Ioanna is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, she worked at the UPMC in Paris and collaborated with the University of Queensland.

Ioanna holds an MS in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences from KCL and BS in Neuroscience from Cardiff University.

Alexandra Kourgiantaki, PhD

Senior Scientific Associate

Alexandra is a Senior Scientific Associate in Intelligencia. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in University College London for the last 4 years. Main focus of her research was the restoration of muscle function in mouse models of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using optogenetics and the simulation of the pathological microenvironment in microfluidics. Prior to this, Alexandra completed her PhD studies in Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology in the Medical School of Crete where she developed pioneering strategies for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and CNS injuries. Small molecules, collagen scaffolds and stem cells were her main expertise. During her PhD studies she had also been a visitor student in University of Cambridge in the Brain Repair Centre in Addenbrooke’s hospital where she got trained on murine spinal cord injury models. 

Alexandra has a MRes in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine from the University of Manchester and a BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from the University of Thessaly.

Karolos Koutsoulelos

Software Engineer

Karolos is a Back-end and Data Engineer at Intelligencia. Throughout his career, Karolos has been building SaaS applications in various industries. Before joining Intelligencia, he worked in the hospitality industry for several years developing solutions such as custom web applications and integration services for customers globally. He is a member of the academic staff of Athens Tech College.

Karolos holds an MS in Advanced Software Engineering from the University of Sheffield and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire.

Evgenia Kyriakidou

Scientific Associate

Evgenia is a Scientific associate at Intelligencia.Prior to working at Intelligencia she spent the last years at healthcare, particularly as a community pharmacist.

Evgenia holds a pharmacist degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc at Clinical and Industrial Pharmacology from Medical School, AUTH. She has also Post-graduated studies at Nanomedicine and Clinical trials.

Maria Lala

Scientific Associate

Maria is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to that, her research focused on the genetic background and molecular interactions underlying carcinogenesis in lung and thyroid tumors.

Maria holds an MSc in Molecular Biomedicine from the Medical School of Athens and a BSc in Biology from NKUA.

Eva Loizou, PhD

Senior Scientific Associate

Eva Loizou is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, she worked as a Product Development Manager at NIPD Genetics bringing to the market novel genetic tests. She has also served as an equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs, covering healthcare and biotech companies.

Eva earned her Biology degree from the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens and her MSc in Cancer from the University College London (UCL). She also holds a Ph.D degree in Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics from Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in NY.

Natassa Lioliou

Senior Scientific Associate

Natassa is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, she worked as an academic researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki focusing on Molecular Pathway Analysis.

She has a BS in Biology from the University of Patras and an MS in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

John Look

Data Analyst

John is a Data Analyst at Intelligencia. He previously held business and data analyst roles of varying seniority within the pharmacy space, and spent a short amount of time at a tech consulting firm. 

John holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Evansville.

Angela Malliaroudakis

People Operations Associate

Angela is a People Operations Associate. Prior to joining Intelligencia, she worked as a Talent Acquisition Analyst for a year while also finishing off her bachelor's degree. 

She holds a BSc in Human Resource Management and Business Leadership from the American College of Greece.

Marina Mantsopoulou

Scientific Associate

Marina is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, she worked as a research fellow in Aquaculture Genetics focusing on genome editing for disease resistance at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh. 

She holds a MScR in Genetics and Genomics from the University of Edinburgh. As an undergraduate student she studied Biology with a specialization in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biotechnology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Dorita Metallinou

Scientific Associate

Dorita is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, she worked as a Clinical Trial Coordinator in Hematology Clinical Trials in Theagenio Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki.

Dorita holds an MSc in Inflammation and Inflammatory Diseases from University of Paris and a BS in Biology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Dimitra Mitsiou

Scientific Associate

Dimitra is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to that, she completed the 18-month Internship Program of Novartis Hellas. In its framework, she rotated between Medical Affairs, Commercial and Customer Excellence. She has also worked as a Research Assistant with a focus on Neuroimmunology and Rheumatology at Karolinska Institutet.

She holds an MSc in Biomedicine from Karolinska Institutet and a BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from the University of Thessaly.

Eirini Monogiou

Scientific Associate

Eirini is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. During her studies, she focused on the fields of molecular diagnostics and the development of lab-on-chip devices, applied in healthcare, as well as DNA repair and DNA Damage Response network.

Eirini holds an MS in Molecular Biomedicine from the Medical School of Athens and BS in Biology from University of Crete.

Ioannis Mourelatos

Senior Data Analyst

Ioannis is a Senior Data Analyst at Intelligencia. He has spent the last 15 years in data driven roles in the maritime and public opinion sectors. Before Intelligencia, Ioannis spent 4 years as a data analyst at the Signal Group, designing and implementing numerous data pipelines and services.

Ioannis holds a MSc in Informatics from University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Statistics from Athens University of Economics and Business.

Katerina Nikolouzou

Talent Acquisition Associate

Katerina is a Talent Acquisition Associate at Intelligencia. She has worked as an IT Talent Acquisition Consultant and prior to that, she spent 2 years working for a brokerage firm in custody and clearing. 
She holds an MSc in Strategic Human Resource Management from Alba Business School and a BSc in Accounting and Finance from Deree College.

Giannis Panagiotakis

Data Scientist

Giannis is a Data Scientist at Intelligencia. Previously, he was working as a Data Scientist on various projects, the majority of them related to Natural Language Processing. 

He holds an MSc in Statistics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, a BSc in Computer Science from the same institution, and a BSc in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Elena Panoutsou

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Elena is a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Intelligencia. She is an HR professional with more than 10 years of experience and thorough knowledge of International Talent Acquisition. Before Intelligencia, Elena was the Talent Acquisition Senior Supervisor at Avramar, and prior to that, she was International Talent Acquisition Specialist, EMEA in the IT and Hospitality Industry. 

She holds an MBA from Derby University and an Executive Diploma in HR from Pearson Edexcel.

Vasiliki Pantazopoulou, PhD

Senior Scientific Associate

Vasiliki is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. She has spent the past 9 years
in healthcare and specifically, in molecular diagnostics and molecular cancer genetics. Prior to Intelligencia, she spent the greatest part of her career as a researcher studying the molecular and cellular profile of cancer patients and the mechanisms of regulation of gene expression during a Horizon 2020 program. During her PhD thesis, Vasiliki has gained a State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and an Alpha Bank Fellowship, while she co-authored 7 academic publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Vasiliki holds a BS in Biology, MS and PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology of Cancer
from UoA.

Eleni Papadaki

Scientific Associate

Eleni is a Scientific Associate in Intelligencia. Prior to that, her research focused on translational Immuno-Oncology and especially on immune escape mechanisms in breast cancer.

Eleni holds an MSc in Oncology from Medical School of UOC and a BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics from DUTH.

Nefeli Papadopoulou

Scientific Associate

Nefeli is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, she worked on in silico approaches to antibody engineering at Collège de France and at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. She also served as a health policy trainee at the European Commission and as a junior consultant for the WHO.

She holds a Dual MS in Computational Biology and Developmental Biology from Sorbonne Université and a BSc in Biomedical Science from King’s College London.

Ioanna Sanida

Data Scientist

Ioanna is a Data Scientist at Intelligencia. Her main focus lies in natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval problems. For the past 6 years she has been working as a Data Scientist, always in a customer-oriented mentality. Prior to Intelligencia, Ioanna spent 6 years in the Netherlands, working across several domains, where she implemented customer care chatbots, machine translation models and question-answering search engines. She has chosen language as the higher cognitive function that she would like to focus on, because she thinks much of human intelligence is reflected in language.

Ioanna is a holder of an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from UVA and a Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from DUTH.

Konstantina Saraki

Senior Scientific Associate

Konstantina is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Previously, she worked as a researcher in Academic Clinical Research focused on Oncology and as a Study Coordinator of Clinical trials led by Abbvie and Zeincro.

She holds an MS in Biosciences from University of Bath and a BS Hons in Molecular Biology from University of Hertfordshire.

Eva Reed

Executive Assistant

Eva is the Executive Assistant at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, she worked for a Senior Partner that managed the mid Atlantic region at McKinsey & Co. She also supported the CEO of ABN Amro and spent many years working on the Equities trading floor of Goldman Sachs.

Eva holds a BS in Accounting from William Paterson University.

Dimitris Skyvalidas

Scientific Associate

Dimitris is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, his research focused on the immunoregulatory action of some pharmaceutical compounds in psoriatic and neurological diseases. In addition, he worked as a medical sales representative for one and a half year.

Dimitris holds an MS in Clinical Applications of Molecular Medicine from UoT and BS in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from University of Thessaly.

Antonis Stampoulis

Director of Engineering

Antonis is a Director of Engineering at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, Antonis worked with software teams in fin-tech, SaaS platforms, and retail, serving as the Director of Engineering at Originate NYC, and as a freelance consultant. His roles have included being an individual contributor, a tech-lead, a programming language designer, an engineering manager and a strategic advisor. Most recently, he has been the course creator for Terra.do's Climate Change for Software Engineers course.

Antonis is a PhD graduate Computer Science from Yale University and a post-doc researcher at MIT CSAIL, specializing in programming languages. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA.

Petros Stathakos, PhD

Scientific Manager

Petros is a Scientific Manager at Intelligencia. He is a neuroscientist/biochemist with over 7 years of experience inn the field of neuroscience. Before joining Intelligencia, Petros was a research scientist at Eli Lilly focusing on developing human stem cell-derived neuronal assays for neurodegenerative disease drug discovery.

Petros holds a PhD in Translational Health Sciences (Neuroscience) from University of Bristol UK and a BS (Hons) in Neuroscience with Psychology from the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Anthi Trasta, PhD

Senior Scientific Associate

Anthi is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Before joining Intelligencia, Anthi worked as a Medical Writer at a leading Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) and a Medical Representative within healthcare. She has also written editorials for EMBO Reports.

Anthi holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Heidelberg and EMBL, an MS in Neuroscience from Imperial College London and a BS in Biology from University of Athens.

John Troumpis

Software Engineer

John is a Software and Data Engineer at Intelligencia. He has spent the past 3 years working as a software developer, with a focus on backend and writing beautiful code, at various organizations.

John holds an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol.

Mihalis Tsoukatos

DevOps Engineer

Mihalis is a DevOps Engineer at Intelligencia. Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer at Encode and as an Automation Engineer/Working Student at Nokia.

Antonis Valavanis

Software Engineer

Antonis is a Front-end Engineer at Intelligencia. He has spent the past 5 years working  as a software engineer in various tech companies, both as Front-End and Full-Stack Engineer.  

Antonis holds a BS in Informatics Engineering from the Technological Institute of Crete.

Elena Valkana

Senior Growth Associate

Elena is a Senior Growth Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to that, she was leading the healthcare & life sciences portfolio at Endeavor Greece.
Elena holds a BSc with Honours in Management from the University of Stirling and MSc in Entrepreneurship from the University of Amsterdam.

Julia Vardaki

Senior Scientific Associate

Julia is a Senior Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Before joining Intelligencia, she spent
2 years at Karolinska Institutet and 5 years at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she worked in the field of cancer cell biology investigating many tumor types. She focused on the roles of cancer cell derived exosomes in tumor microenvironment and the possible use of exosomes as biomarkers’ source for prediction of response to different treatments (chemotherapy, radiopharmaceuticals and immune checkpoint therapy). She is also an author/co-author in scientific publications in high impact factor journals.

Julia holds a BSc in Biology from University of Athens, a MSc in Molecular Medicine from Uppsala University and finishing her PhD at Karolinska Institutet.

Evangelos Vergetis

Office Manager

Evangelos is an Office Manager at Intelligencia. He has 15+ years of experience in project management at international businesses.

Evangelos has an MBA from ALBA and a BS in Economics from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Emma Vlachou

Scientific Associate

Emma is a Scientific Associate at Intelligencia. Prior to joining Intelligencia, she worked in the field of Pharmacovigilance and Medical Information for Medwork and for Amgen Hellas.

Emma holds a BSc in Molecular and Cell Biology and an MSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Strasbourg, focusing on the imaging of RNA polymerase II transcription.